# Mental Health Practitioner - COAST > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-practitioner-coast/7d3dc72e-f7e9-4665-b476-1ce4841f0f75 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mental-health-practitioner-coast/7d3dc72e-f7e9-4665-b476-1ce4841f0f75.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Chalkhill - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (Long shift, Bank Holiday and Weekend on rotation.) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T08:15:05.271Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/Haywards_Heath/Sussex_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Practitioner_AHP_RMN/Mental_Health_Practitioner_AHP_RMN-v8340361 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8340361?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Mental Health Practitioner to join our well-established and innovative Sussex CAMHS Acute services. This post will be part of COAST, providing alternative to hospital admission treatment to our young community. As a mental health practitioner, your goal is to offer support and treatment to young people and their families during a period of mental health crisis. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team and be integral in an exciting project to develop the service to introduce an intensive pathway. Together with delivering our core business includes assessing young people's mental health, including attention to risk management and care planning, and working with families and the wider systems that support these young people. This vacancy is Sussex wide and the ability to travel, even in remote areas over weekend and BH is essential for the role. This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details). ### Main duties of the job As a Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be working as part of a supportive team of mental health practitioners who come from nursing, OT, social work and support worker backgrounds. You will deliver crisis assessments, brief interventions to young people and their families/carers who are experiencing a period of mental health crisis, with a particular focus on maximising skills and competencies in activities of daily living. Contributing to the management of a team caseload of clients with complex needs, you will assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, which will be delivered in a community & home setting. We follow a multi-disciplinary approach and as such you will provide specialist assessment and intervention. The ability to travel across sites is essential for this role. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full list of responsibilities. In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be: - Registered with the NMC or HCPC or Social Work England via a core professional qualification - Experienced in risk management - Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role - Experienced working within a mental health setting It would also be advantageous if you are: - Experienced working in CAMHS (Children and Young People’s mental health services) Flexibility with working patterns to include some bank holidays/weekends and evening work is essential, as is own transport – as the role involves travel across Sussex. Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact: Fabio Caggi - Service Manager Fabio.Caggi@nhs.net We are happy to arrange informal visits. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### EXPERIENCE **Essential** - post qualification experience - Experience of working with people with mental Health problems - Understanding and contribution to the Clinical Governance Agenda - Previous experience in similar role - Risk assessment experience ### QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - Registered Professional Qualification - NMC, HPC or Social Work England Registration - Post Basic Courses / Study Days - Evidence of CPD and professional portfolio ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664433) - [protocol (pdf, 368.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10664434) - [privacy notice (pdf, 127.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2254) - [dbs policy statement (pdf, 231.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2263) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.